Abstract: In “A Romance of Denialism: In the Skin of a Lion As A Settler Literary Land Claim,” I identify an aesthetic theme in Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 novel, In the Skin of a Lion, that parallels settler colonialism’s political response to Indigenous peoples and their lands. I argue that Ondaatje’s novel adheres to what Margery Fee identifies as […]

Abstract: Examining Japanese history through manga may initially seem unconventional, given the considerable distrust towards the medium in Western scholarship, where it is often viewed as a tool for distorting history. To avoid misinterpretation in the analysis of Japanese comics, it is essential to approach them with what Tessa Morris-Suzuki terms historical truthfulness, recognising them […]

Excerpt: Cowboy characters in popular media have historically been portrayed as uber masculine, violent, and anarchic; and while the cowboy-like protagonists of Cormac McCarthy’s epic Blood Meridian (1985) and Ang Lee’s film Brokeback Mountain (2005) certainly possess these themes, they also problematize traditional and sensationalist representations of the cowboy persona by showing it through a […]

Excerpt: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant (2015) follows the character of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) through the beautiful and harsh South Dakota wilderness in the 1820s. Based on Michael Punke’s 2002 novel as well as historical events, and co-written with Mark L. Smith, this film portrays the characteristic nineteenth century Western narrative in which European settlers […]

Description: An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state. How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates how the Canadian state […]

Abstract: Aim(s): This discursive article aims to examine how systemic factors (both) reproduce the structure of settler colonialism and influence health outcomes among Indigenous peoples in the United States through settler colonial determinants of Indigenous health (SCDoIH). Design: Discursive paper. Methods: This discursive paper demonstrates how settler colonialism and health relate to each other within […]

Abstract: Japan’s museums have been critiqued by local and foreign scholars for their representations of the Indigenous Ainu as primitive, non-coeval and depolitised of their resistance and revival movements. The Hokkaido Museum attempted to address this critique when they refurbished their galleries in 2015 by re-ordering the permanent exhibit on Hokkaido’s cultural, natural, economic and […]

Abstract: This chapter interrogates the key themes of this book in more depth, focusing on the relationship between bureaucracy, neoliberalism and colonialism. It argues that bureaucracy is implicated in ongoing practices of colonisation and racialisation – not in an incidental way but because modernist bureaucracies have always been a key technology mobilised as part of […]

Abstract: At the Los Angeles premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon on October 17th, 2023, Christopher Cote, an Osage consultant who worked on the film, expressed reservations about the depiction of the Osage and how their roles are attributed in the story. Because of Hollywood’s misrepresentation history, this comment echoed with issues that are […]

Abstract: Although attention to continuing and continuous structural elements of settler colonialism remains central to understanding the harms inflicted on Indigenous communities, there is always a risk that overfocusing on ‘a structure, not an event’ can leave little air for Indigenous actions and dynamism amid colonial systems of elimination and appropriation. Settler colonialism is not a […]